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"It seems that the recent social media promotion of DOT is quite unsettling for me because it was released shortly after the Sendong tragedy, an outcome that has been partially influenced by the way we abuse the natural resources of our country; quite ironic if you ask me. Moreover, Kris Aquino’s “life should go on” mentality on the recent tragedy comes to mind, when the public consciousness, dictated by the media, is being shifted so fast from one sensational topic to the other."
— Oh well, I might be over-analyzing here, it’s tourism after all; selling and marketing comes with persuading people to consume is the name of the game, even if it means to leaving a potential “copycat” promotional message of such abstract proportions to the netizens that have mixed opinions of what is “fun” for that matter, and by all means it’s effective at calling one’s attention.
Fire Weed: I took this long exposure photograph of our neighbor’s fountain fireworks setting off during New Year’s eve. I never thought it would look that beautiful.
"I'm Comic Sans, asshole" by Mike Lacher
This is a very hilarious reactionary monologue written in the perspective of the most controversial typeface ever, the Comic Sans.
Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg…[click here to continue reading]
Come to think of it, Comic Sans is like the Nickelback of the typographic world; really mediocre and cheesy at its best, but pretty much everyone liked it at some point in their lives. It maybe quite shocking to imagine a world where everyone used it. But then again, the same shocking realization applies for Helvetica (which some people claim to be overused by hipsters), or any other typeface for that matter, haha.
Kooshball Invasion: I took this shot on New Year’s Eve 2011. Once again I really find “premature” fireworks to be somewhat interesting, especially this particular one, which looks like a giant kooshball floating above our town, haha.
"It would be more accurate to view the Bible, not as pure fiction, but as science fiction. If God is conceived as superior to humans in intelligence and other qualities, then the human being who attempts to conceive the mind of God runs into a problem. It is the same problem that computer scientist and science fiction author Vernor Vinge ran into when he attempted to imagine realistic characters of the future that are smarter than humans. If humans could accurately model superhuman intelligence, he argued, then humans would be that smart themselves. In consequence, the advent of smarter-than-human intelligence represents a breakdown in the ability of humans to model or predict their future: the Singularity. Attempting to imagine what the Singularity would be like is like attempting to imagine the mind of God."
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Mitchell Heisman, Suicide Note p. 40
PS: Humanity has always had the will to create “something” greater than himself to serve him, from the day we started to obsessively envision about gods and goddesses to explain phenomena, to the day we created advanced technology that is constantly and exponentially speeding up in development. It’s absurd in a way that we have always tried to create something that we view as infinite, just to serve us a finite purpose, and in the end, it would actually make sense that we are in this complicated process of overthrowing ourselves, when the things we strived to create for eons will ultimately surpass us in intelligence, capability and even in moral judgment. By then, we would have created and committed the greatest paradox ever to exist in human nature.
Breaking All Illusions by Dream Theater: From their latest 2011 album. Gotta love this song’s soaring chorus. The inward-reflecting, “enlightened” lyrics and the progressive JRock-inspired melodies really go well together. Plus that bluesy guitar solo is really reminiscent of “La Villa Strangiato” by Rush. All in all it’s a very positive and uplifting song for me.
Live in the moment
Breathe in a new beginning
Wisdom Revealed
As I unlearn to learn
PS: Talk about the sonic version of the Eureka effect, haha
"If you are looking at a person who’s one meter away from you, you are looking at that person as he/she was roughly 0.000003 seconds ago. We are all seeing things based on how fast light travels, so basically we are all seeing things right now, based on how those things were in the past."
— So does that mean we’re all as “nostalgic” as the present laws of physics permit us to be? Haha.
Stridal Wave (click image to zoom in): I took this series of shots at the local mall skating rink. This was inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson’s photos, with his aesthetic (and somewhat accidental) use of motion blur and his concept of the decisive moment on some of his photos. Eadweard Muybridge comes into mind too for the pseudo-image sequence. Ain’t really the most showy move in ice skating but I like the sequence and the silhouette-like lighting of the model because of her all-black outfit contrasting the white ice background.
"Do you have someone who seems to ambiguously hate you at work, or at your social circle? Want them to be manipulated into liking you instead? Ask them for a favor! Try to position them into an incredibly difficult and awkward decision by requesting their kindness, like borrowing something from them and returning it on time."
— Remember that a person’s own actions steer their own disposition towards others, and the bigger the price one pays for his or her decisions, the more he or she values it. It’s self-perception theory at work!
"I wish more people would take note that the more harm they cause, whether it would be intentional or accidental, the more hatred they would feel, and in retrospect the more kindness they deal into this world, the more they can learn to love the people they help."
— Who knows, maybe action per se can drive a human to emotion, or more importantly, empathy, not the other way around; a cognitive dissonance in effect, that in the absence of extrinsic fulfillment, we always have the opportunity to create intrinsic ones.
Lustrous Longhorn (click image to zoom in): This is my 1:1 macro shot of a long-horned beetle. The surreal bokeh was produced from the glitters of the Christmas decor where I put the beetle in. It really gives the photo a “hallucinogenic” look, haha.
